OOT, What is your life situation?
 

-Age
-Occupation (If poker, please list stakes)
-Family? (GF/Wife . . kids)
-Would you say you're happy with where you are?



I spawn this post b/c I'm 26. Starting to look for a job. Been grinding out micro/low stakes for the past two years. I was working as a floor dealer in a casino. Quit to play poker full-time while finishing up school. The casino paid decent (far more than I think I'll make now going into the real world), I enjoyed the people I worked with, but I just couldn't see myself working in a casino for the rest of my life. Finished a marketing degree 14 months ago. Truthfully, I don't really want to work in marketing, but I don't want to play poker forever either. I'm single, in good shape, but all-around very unhappy with my life to this point. I think I'll be happy once I'm 'on my way' - wife, possibly kids and a steady job, but right now I just can't envision how I'll get to point B.

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Age: 27
Occupation: PhD Student and Micro Grinder (50NL)
Live in Girlfriend
In general, yes.

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I think I'll be happy once I'm 'on my way' - wife, possibly kids and a steady job, but right now I just can't envision how I'll get to point B.

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Try not to worry about this... You're only 26 afterall. Try to keep your eyes open for good opportunities in all areas of your life and things will work out for the best.

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Age: 23
Occupation: low stakes NL + a BMat that I'm very close to being finished but can't get around to completing.
Single
Unhappy. I have lost all interest in life. A few things can make me happy in the short term (matter of days) but nothing helps for the longer term. I don't care where I am. I don't care where I am or could be going. Being alive and being dead are approaching the same value.

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Re: OOT, What is your life situation?
 

-Age

22

-Occupation (If poker, please list stakes)

Poker, 10/20 NL(mostly)

-Family? (GF/Wife . . kids)

Single and living by my own

-Would you say you're happy with where you are?

Yes I'm very happy with where I am today. I dunno, I dropped out of university almost a year ago because it sucked and all the people sucked. So now I play a few hours poker a week and then do what I want with my time, it's awesome. Like a couple months ago I started dancing salsa for example which is loads of fun. Too bad it's only 1-2 times a week in my town, almost makes me want to move to a bigger city for more salsa :P

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24
Poker 5/10 limit
Live at home, happily single.
I'm happy but directionless, party excessively after dropping out of university in my final semester 2 months ago, live my life vicariously through drugs and women.

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-Age
-Occupation (If poker, please list stakes)
-Family? (GF/Wife . . kids)
-Would you say you're happy with where you are?

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Age: 32
Occupation: Full-time poker player
Stakes: Micro NL ($10 or less buy-in)
Family: Wife (stay-at-home), 6 kids
Happiness: Times are tough

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Live at home

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orly

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Live in Girlfriend


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Nice

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Live at home

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orly

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i moved back from China eight months ago now.

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-Age
-Occupation (If poker, please list stakes)
-Family? (GF/Wife . . kids)
-Would you say you're happy with where you are?

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Age: 32
Occupation: Full-time poker player
Stakes: Micro NL ($10 or less buy-in)
Family: Wife (stay-at-home), 6 kids
Happiness: Times are tough

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Holy [censored], I hope this is a joke.

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Age: 25
Occupation: My official title is Academic Specialist, but I'm basically just a paper-pusher.
Family: GF that will probably become fiancee/wife in the next year.
Happiness: Pretty much. Sometimes it gets lonely, but I'm a bit of an introvert so I deal. I want more from life, but I think I'm taking positive steps to attain it, so that keeps me satisfied.

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-Age
23

-Occupation
Engineer for Coca-Cola

-Family? (GF/Wife . . kids)
Engaged... closing on our first house in 6 days!

-Would you say you're happy with where you are?
I'm extremely happy right now. However, I can relate to the anxiety around getting a full time job and the feeling that it consumes/defines your life. I've been out of school for 2.5 years, and the first year of working was really tough for me. It's very hard to get used to having drastically less free and flexibility in your life. In that regard, I envy all the successful poker players out there. I do love my job now and my relationship, friends, and social circle are all absolutely perfect and pretty damn amazing. I really couldn't ask for more.

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-22
-Google Adwords Manager
-Wife, but separated
-No

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23

Law Student

Live with GF


I have plenty of job offers and am trying to decide if I want to live in NYC or Boston for next summer and then after graduation. Things are going great with the girlfriend. Everyone in my family is healthy, I'm in the best shape of my life. My brothers whom I battled with for years are now actually my friends.

My dream is to be one of those reader's digest lawyer stories. Work at a big firm for a while, pay off my loans, save up a good nestegg, then leave to start a cookie company or doggie day care or something..

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42

Clinical Psychologist (left private practice,now working at home, consulting and doing expert witness work). Play poker mostly for fun: 8/16 live.

Married to a divorce lawyer. Three kids.

Happy? Pretty much.

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27

Working in internet marketing, put in my resignation a few weeks back and friday is my last day. I have no idea where I'll be going next, but I wasn't happy where I was because it was a tiny company with no room for growth.

Also casually playing 25nl/50nl and improving quickly.

No family or GF, but happily single living in DC.

I'd rate my happiness right now at around a 3/10, mostly because of the stress from trying to decide on a new career. That, and my car was just totaled, so I have that to deal with as well.

If anyone has job suggestions, particularly along the lines of business development/project management/marketing, I'd love to hear them.

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32
Finance manager at my dad's car dealership
Married w/6 month old daughter
Own house and rental property, 6 figure income
play 1/2 up to 5/10 about 3-4 hours a day while at work
Happy always

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32
Finance manager at my dad's car dealership
Married w/6 month old daughter
Own house and rental property, 6 figure income
play 1/2 up to 5/10 about 3-4 hours a day while at work
Happy always

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This sounds like such a good cushy job.

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It's very hard to get used to having drastically less free and flexibility in your life.

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wow, my experience was the exact opposite. in college I was always working and had a bunch of stuff to do, and never felt like I had any time. when I started working full time, having no constant obligations (outside normal work hours) felt great.

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23
Car Salesman
Girlfriend
Just got out of school and trying to figure out what the hell I'm going to do so selling cars in the "in-between" time. Am I happy, meh not particularly, but I have meaningful money for the first time in a while and can afford to donate again at 100 and 200nl

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age: 27 in a couple of days.

occupation: physics Ph.D student

family: getting married in a few months

happiness: This is a mixed bag. Most days, yes. However, it's become clearer recently that grad school was probably a mistake. I'm close enough to finishing that I think I'm going to ride it out, but the postdoc route doesn't look very appealing for a variety of reasons, so I'm going to try and find some industrial job. I am pretty open to this not involving physics per se.

This is an occasional source of depression/frustration and is the main source of unhappiness for me. The academic route is what almost everybody goes into grad school expecting, and is what the culture is built around, so even if you've made the conscious decision that it's not for you, you still feel like you've failed. Sometimes this triggers jags where I get to feeling that I'm not very interesting anymore (which assumes I ever was), and that's not so fun. But this is pretty rare. For the most part, things are pretty good. I like my friends (grad school has been fun even if it wasn't the greatest idea), and I feel pretty lucky to have found my fiancee. She's a great companion, and considerably more tolerant of some of my foibles than most women would be.

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23
Playing/Coaching, working for/on a few websites, but received a few I-banking offers so my life may take a huge change here soon
No serious GF, though I do get out a lot and meet tons of great girls, and am still very close with parents.

Just moved to NYC and am very happy... Currently debating whether I-banking + coaching/playing is possible (probably very high EV for my plans to not work past 45 or so)

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30
CTO/IT Director for a Hedge Fund
GF and Puppy
Very

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43
Controller for a truck leasing company.
Happily married w/ two awesome teenagers.
Play micro-limit poker daily for entertainment.
Don't like my 2 hour daily commute and should be making more money, but I love my job.
Financially secure.
Life is good.

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age-23
occupation-I've made 95% of my money the last 2 years from poker (limits being anywhere from .5/1nl to 3/6nl)
family- I have parents, no gf, live in house with 2 roomates.
would you say you're happy with where you are- no, but I leave in 3 weeks.

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23
2nd year Pharmacy student/50nl grinder
live with friend i've known for years, no gf (never had one)
not really

school is hard and stresses me out; i keep somewhat content with my hobbies (poker, music, trips) but overall i feel kind of lost in life. kind of lonely. i figured i'll get through school first then sort out my mental issues.

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-20 years old.

-I go to school full time, undecided business major at the moment. I play 1/2-2/4 6 max NL as my "job".

-I'm living at home this semester but will be back on campus next semester. No girlfriend right now.

-I'm not sure, my future is pretty undecided but I am much better off than a lot of my friends. I'm too hard on myself with everything but overall I'm happy.

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-Age
Just turned 21.

-Occupation (If poker, please list stakes)
Engineering student in Denmark (europe).
Playing NL100-200 a couple of hours a day, to pay appartment/drinking.

-Family? (GF/Wife . . kids)
Single. Moved into a decent appartment with a friend 2 month ago.
Loving all the free time, since i have been in relationships 4 out of the last 6 years.

-Would you say you're happy with where you are?
Pretty happy.

School is pretty tough, but so many cool people around here.

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26

at the moment i'm actually a bum. i mean i guess i play poker for a living right? but i'm down on the year, so ... do i? haha..either way i haven't played for what seems like over a month now.

no gf at the moment, live by myself. looking to buy a house soon.

i'm doing alright

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-23

-poker player (currently 5/10NL, but wide range and 5/10 is closer to the bottom of that range)

-live in girlfriend

-no. I feel like I have a lot of potential I need to use to something better than just amassing money and financial security.

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-Age 25
-Occupation (If poker, please list stakes) Senior Accountant (Corporate) and I play micro NL
-Family? (GF/Wife . . kids) Girlfriend of 4.5 years.
-Would you say you're happy with where you are? For the most part, yea. My girl can be batshit crazy, and she is preasuring me into getting married, which I dont think I really want to do just yet. But I live downtown Chicago, so really how the hell could you not be happy around here?

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35
Inside Sales
Engaged & living with fiancee
Never been happier.

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21
I am just getting back into playing poker. Probably going to start back at $25 NL.
No ladies at the moment.
I am happy with my life, but things could get a lot better. I have not had a real girlfriend in 2 years and that pretty much sucks and I have no real direction in my life.

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27
Sportswriter (Medium-sized paper, cover mostly high school sports which I find enjoyable)
Married 4+ years
I'd rate my happiness at about 7.5/10. Things could always be better but I have no real reason to complain.

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Age 25

occupation- starting construction on my nightclub/restaurant on monday

status- single, and not changing..hopefully


happy?- if happy is not sleeping at night due to thoughts running through my head and excitement, than ya, Im a ball o fun.

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-Age
---31

-Occupation (If poker, please list stakes)
---The title is marketing analyst. I'm a numbers cruncher for a tobacco company. I play micro stakes and SNG's for fun and extra spending money.

-Family? (GF/Wife . . kids)
---I've been living with GF for about 2 years and we've been together for 6. She just finished law school and started working. Once I save up some dough I'll by a ring. No kids but I used to have a fish.

-Would you say you're happy with where you are?
---On the whole I've never really been unhappy with my life. I've never had the best job or made the most money but my good friends keep me happy



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36

I have a bar, work as a riverguide and translator as well.

I've just found somebody amazing.

As I've just found somebody amazing I'd put my happiness right up there at the top.

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-Age - 37

-Occupation (If poker, please list stakes) - Project Manager, Side Job in Event organization

-Family? (GF/Wife . . kids) Wife, Girl (4), Boy (5)

-Would you say you're happy with where you are? No, but it has little to do with my situation. I'm just a depressing bastard no matter what.


Ray

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22

.5/1 - 2/4 NL + College

Single

Happy. I've decided to stop stressing about everything that gets to me, also learning how to work instead of procrastinate has helped a lot too. I plan on bumming through school at 3 courses a term while travelling here and there until I eventually become a successful doctor sometime in my 30s.